Santa’s sleigh will glide through the Gilbert Islands tonight — across the lake in the community’s traditional Parade of Lights. Paul Cox has decorated his boat as a bright red sleigh and will join ...

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A trident lined with shark teeth, used in the study. Image via PLOS ONE/Drew et. al. For decades, a total of 124 swords, tridents and spears taken from the Pacific Ocean’s Gilbert Islands in the ...

A mid-nineteenth-century trident illustrates a changing marine ecosystem in the South Pacific Archaeological artifacts create not only a record of human behavior, but can also record past ...

Shark-tooth weapons once used for warfare in the Central Pacific have revealed two locally extinct shark species, a new study says. Historical records show that natives of the Gilbert Islands (map), ...

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Frequent occurrences of coral bleaching and associated coral mortality over recent decades have raised concerns about the survival of coral reefs in a warming planet. The El Niño-influenced coral ...

IN a recent article, Montgomery 1 reviewed the observations of the equatorial undercurrent, a current which has been recorded at least seasonally in each ocean. This easterly flow is found near the ...